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A bankruptcy judge will consider next week whether to allow lawyers for Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. to question a representative of a key insurance company about unpaid claims. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports HDL blames those unpaid claims for its need ...

Doctors are now required to check the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program before prescribing certain drugs, reports The Roanoke Times.    

Hospital patients are now required to sign an acknowledgement that they are outpatients, not admitted to the hospital, when that status applies. The Daily Press reports the new law addresses patients “under observation.”    

Virginia Lawyers Media, publishers of Virginia Lawyers Weekly and the Virginia Medical Law Report, honored the Class of 2015 of “Influential Women of Virginia” on May 7 at a dinner held in suburban Richmond. This awards program, now in its ...

Significant attention was given to the issue of overdoses to prescription pain medication and street narcotics during the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.  Gov. McAuliffe and Attorney General Herring focused the work of taskforces on the sharp increases in ...